Omicron May Be O-Mega

 Excellent as usual, Dr. Roby Bhattacharyya, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard released his "Broad COVID update:  Omicron edition" on December 17, 2021.  Here it is:

The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 may not be "micron" at all, but, rather, Omega.  Let's hope a viral tidal wave is not on its way.

Billion-Dollar Blueprints

 In the December 4, 2021, issue of The Economist, there is a wonderful article featuring patent analytics firm, PatentVector, entitled "Billion-dollar blueprints - A new way of understanding the high but elusive worth of intellectual property".